Clean language is, and this somewhat accurate (http://www.cleanlanguage.co.uk/) is cutting edge mind-body therapist as facilitator next gen NLP. Less is more. The technique uses a highly terse syntax to guide transformative healing through symbolic modeling. That is, " [the task of the therapist] is the use of Clean Language to support the client to become aware that their metaphoric expressions have a correspondence with their life experiences." Metaphors in Mind, 2001, James Lawley & Penny Tompkins.


While initially used in clinical therapy, Clean Language offers helpful techniques to all professional communicators, especially those working closely with others.

Clean Language techniques are aligned closely with modern 'enabling' principles of empathy, and understanding, as opposed to traditional 'manipulative' (conscious or unconscious) methods of influence and persuasion and the projection of self-interest.

Clean Language helps people to convey their own meaning, free of emotional or other distracting interpretation from others.

As such Clean Language promotes better clarity of communications, neutrality and objectivity (absence of emotional 'spin', bias and prejudice), ease of understanding, and cooperative productive relationships.



So, I was solo in a bar New Years. And, because I was shit-canned from the ex, I really didn’t care about anything. Cue natural game.

So, I started to recall the use of, and strict syntax for, Clean Language as well as recalling the therapy session I attended a while ago. My interest was the mind-body phenom to healing disruptive anything actually.

So, I’m talking to this girl cue up Clean Language.

Me: Let me ask you an open ended question (this is how you start.

Her: OK

Me: What would you like to have happen?

Her: I don’t know…laughs.

Me: (slight jesture) hum…And, I don’t know, what about I don’t know?

Her: I don’t know, I’m thinking.

Me: And, your thinking, what is it about that thinking that’s behind thinking.

Her: (her mood changed)

Let’s just say that I was 10 minutes into this and her mind shifted and whole body was completely receptive to what I was doing. Notice that with everything she said, I validate that I heard her (empathy and self-interest) and continued to use a terse sometimes ugly syntax to facilitate discussion. I saw her whole body change infront of me.

Do some research and check back and validate my experience. Thanks!

Clean Language is fascinating. I really like that whole content-free type of communication, but it's just one way of communicating. I wouldn't discount the value of any other communication "system".
There's times I like exploring people's personal metaphors, but for the most part, I DO want to impose content and emotional bias'. In seduction, you want them in YOUR reality.